On Dec. 3rd, Michigan State and North Carolina played a basketball game 
at Ford Field that was probably a dress rehearsal for this season's 
basketball Final Four at Ford Field (the quintessential "F4").  Son #1 
attended and sat at ground level on chairs that had been placed on a 
riser, behind the student section.  The basketball floor was raised and 
all he could see were the player's heads.  He moved upstairs to the 
cheap seats.

That was allegedly not the same layout they intend to use for the 
tournament, but it was certainly a bust for the people with the most 
expensive tickets.  I don't know what one can apply from that story when 
trying to predict the optimum location to place one's butt to watch a 
hockey game, which is surrounded by boards even higher than a basketball 
court floor.  Aiming for rinkside may not be the best choice.

Bob Griebel


Todd Nielson wrote:
> Basically it will guarantee that the best seat in the house is in your
> living room.
>
> -Todd
> http://creasemonkeyhockey.blogspot.com
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Carol S. White" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 8:48 PM
> Subject: Re: 2010 Frozen Four
>
>
>   
>> I am not going to Ford Field either... I think it's a stupid idea to
>> hold such an important set of games in a place like that.  (And if
>> anyone important is lurking here on the list... I am totally serious...
>> I hope you all lose your shirts on this one. )
>>
>> Carol
>> GO Gophers!!!
>>
>>
>> Hampton, Nathan E. wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Erik, et. al.
>>>
>>> If only that were true. I have been looking forward to Washington DC for
>>>       
> such a long time and have been dreading Detroit for exactly the same time
> frame. I am not going to Detroit, unless they are giving me the tickets and
> $189. Yes, they have to pay me to go to a cavernous hole without a single
> good seat. There are NO seats close to the ice in a football arena, so no
> seats worth the normal price we have paid. If I have to, I will give the
> tickets away for free (plenty of unemployed auto workers in the area who
> love hockey).
>   
>>> As for the two price points, it may reflect quality differences (Detroit
>>>       
> vs. Windsor) and therefore higher price is for the better good and the lower
> price for the poorer good; but in a smaller arena I would argue price
> discrimination, which a monopolist like the NCAA can use to increase profit.
> Those who have revealed a strong preference for the good (each of us with
> high priority numbers) will pay the higher price, and those without priority
> numbers (without strong preference revelation) will pay the lower price
> (though you may be sitting right next to each other). If they set the price
> so that Ford Field would sell out, it would be somewhere between $189 and
> $119, but rather than both groups (high and low revealed preference) paying
> one price as has been the case in the past, they are now using their
> proprietary information (whether or not we are on the priority list) to
> price the tickets.
>   
>>> Nathan
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1/23/09 1:49 PM, "Erik Biever" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> The dates and location of the 2010 Frozen Four have also been adjusted.
>>>       
> The
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>>> 2010 Frozen Four will now take place on April 10 and April 12, 2009, at
>>>       
> Ford
>   
>>> Field in Detroit.
>>>
>>> -- Erik
>>>
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